Welcome to Blast From The Past Saturday. Every Saturday I will be posting a previously published post, in order to take my weekends off.
===Originally posted May 4, 2012===
My son has recently started shaving with a straight edge razor. He said that he got ingrown hairs with the disposable blades. Well, shaving with a straight edge blade requires a whole set of additional shaving toiletries.
I was trying to think of something personal I could make my son for his birthday, to go with his cards and gifts, and thought about shaving creams. That was the first time I made the shaving cream from the blog Frugal Granola. I posted the link to the recipe a few days ago. We all love this shaving cream. Then my son came to me about a week later and asked if I could make him Pre-Shave Oil. It apparently helps the whiskers on a man's face stand up better so he can get a closer shave.
I asked him to bring me his little bottle of Pre-Shave Oil so that I could try to figure out the ingredients. He brought me the bottle and low and behold, I already had almost everything on hand. The only thing that I needed was clove oil and pepper oil. The clove oil was easy to find, I have still not found pepper oil, I will probably need to go online to buy that. Anyway, this is the recipe that I came up with after looking at and smelling his oil. He uses it everyday and says it works great. The recipe will follow below the picture.
I am not sure of the cost, but it probably only cost me 15 to 20 cents to make 2 and 1/2 ounces. To buy this Pre-Shave Oil from The Art of Shaving would cost $22.00 for 2 ounces. That is amazing, I just looked it up online. I can't believe how much that saves.
Pre-Shave Oil Recipe
2 oz. castor oil
1/2 oz olive oil
6 drops sandalwood essential oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
2 drops clove essential oil
Pour in a bottle and shake well. That's it, a very easy recipe
Have fun, and please leave me any comments or recommendations
Debi
I have seen three beauty recipes lately using castor oil! I better get some! It must be good stuff.
ReplyDeleteHi Elizabeth,
DeleteI use it in several different beauty products. It works well and is very thick, so it worked especially well in this recipe. Let me know what you think if you try it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Debi